Local office makes a big impact through its work in helping solve childhood cancer

TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation is receiving new support, thanks to a $50,000 grant from Northwestern Mutual. Through its foundation, Northwestern Mutual is awarding its Dallas office with the company's 2012 Community Impact Award for its work with the TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Founded in 2007, the TeamConnor Cancer Foundation is a non-profit 501(c) that harnesses its resources to raise awareness, support families and fund treatments to help find a cure for childhood cancer.

To honor the office's outstanding volunteer efforts, the Dallas-based organization received the grant and will use it to help take the Coins for Kids with Cancer campaign to the national level. The school-driven campaign is ran within elementary and high schools to raise awareness of childhood cancer and encourages students to donate coins for childhood cancer research.

Northwestern Mutual's Dallas-based Managing Partner Tait Cruse and his wife Joy launched TeamConnor in 2007 as a promise to their 8-year-old son, Connor, who passed away after a four-year fight against neuroblastoma, one of the most common cancers affecting young children. They promised Connor that they would do everything they could to help keep other children from having to go through what he did. The Northwestern Mutual team committed to help raise money to support TeamConnor and fund research into new, innovative treatments for children with cancer. "Northwestern Mutual's generous grant to childhood cancer research will immediately and drastically improve the lives of those living with cancer," Cruse said. "We are grateful to Northwestern Mutual for their commitment to children's health."

Northwestern Mutual's Community Impact Award annually recognizes offices that have demonstrated exemplary volunteerism in their own communities. The team in Northwestern Mutual's Dallas office volunteers an average of 100 hours per month with the nonprofit.

"Few things are more emotionally rewarding to a family or a community than being able to contribute in a meaningful way to increasing the quality of life of our children," said John Kordsmeier, president of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation. "TeamConnor's efforts to rally the community to cure childhood cancer are powerful, and it's an honor for us to help mobilize their movement."

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